UHLAND, Jon. LUDWIG, a celebrated German poet, was born at Tubingen, April 26, 1787, studied at theuniversity of his native city, add first appeared as a writer of verse in Seekendorf's .1Insen-aimanach (1806-7). For several years he continued to publish ballads and other lyrics in various periodicals, the first collection of which, under the title of Gedichte, appeared in 1815. To this he kept adding all the rest of his life, and it is on these Gedichte that his fame rests. Their popularity has been, and continues to be, as great as it is merited. upward of a dozen editions having been published. Other productions of Uhland's are his admirable essays. Ueber Walther von der Vogetweide (Stuttg. 1822), and Ueber den Mythus der nord. Bogenlehre vein 3'1,or (Stuttg. 183(i); a masterly collection of old popular songs (Alter hod, and nIed adentscher Volkslieder (Stuttg. 1844-45); and two dramas, Herzog Ernst Von Schwaben (Heidelb. 1817), and Ludwig der Baler (Berl. 1819). He died at Tubingen, Nov. 13, 1862.land was a patriotic politician ne well as a poet. He entered the representa
tive assembly of W11rtemberg, in 1819 as a deputy from Tfibingen, and proved an active member of the liberal party. He was also a delegate to the Frankfurt assembly of 1848; but though Germany has reason to be grateful for his services to the cause of constitutional liberty, it is as a poet he will be best remembered. His pieces are full of spirit, imagination, and truth, finely picturesque in their sketches of nature and ex quisite in their varied tones of feeling. Nothing, indeed, can surpass the brevity, vigor, and suggestive beauty of his ballads, in which a romantic sweetness of sentiment and a classic purity of style are happily combined. Uhland is the acknowledged head of the " Suabiau school" of German poets. See Pfizer's Upland and Ruckert (Stott. 1837), and Mayer's Uhland (1867). Longfellow has translated some of Uhland's ballads, in his Hyperion, into English; and translations by Platt, Skeat, and Sanders have also appeared.